Quotes About Persistence

The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.

I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me to think I'm so good I must be perfect. Or nothing. I am, on the contrary, something: a being who gets tired, has shyness to fight, has more trouble than most facing people easily. If I get through this year, kicking my demon down when it comes up, I'll be able, piece by piece, to face the field of life, instead of running from it the minute it hurts.

Through the mind like an oyster labors on and on, / A grain of sand is all we have

In the heart of the forest, your image follows me

Every day, writing. No matter how bad. Something will come.

I cannot run, I am rooted, and the gorse hurts me With its yellow purses, its spiky armoury. I could not run without having to run forever.

I shall doggedly work, wait and expect the minimum.

You wonder if you've got what it takes to keep building up obstacle courses for your self, and to keep leaping through them, sprained ankle or not.

It was a long time ago. It doesn't matter anymore. And yet I cannot let it go. I cannot let it go.

I could not run without having to run forever

I am writing with a blunt pencil tied on a mile-long stick, at something far off over the horizon line. Will I break through someday? At least if I get 300 pages written by the end of May, I'll have the creaking, gushing skeleton plot of the whole thing.

I love my rejections. They prove that I'm trying'. I'm convinced this quote from Sylvia Plath is one of the best incentives to keep a struggling writer from giving up.

It Will Come. If I Work.

Every day, writing. No matter how bad. Something will come. I have been spoiled to think it will come too soon: without work & sweat. Well, now for 40 days I work & sweat.

Eager always still for the promising future which, even if twenty years are gone, is not the final word, nor the stiffening of old uncreative age. Always the promise, the hope, the dream, amid whatever poverty, war, disease and adversity – always persists the credulous human vision, of something better than that which is.

Enough to snuff the quick Of her small heat out, but before the weight Of stones and hills of stones could break Her down to mere quartz grit in that stony light She turned back.

He habitually wears an expression as if he had determined to drive his head through a brick wall, and was about to do it.

Yes, in my experience, you do have to work hard for your money. For rich people, however, this is a temporary situation.

La definición de demencia es: hacer lo mismo una y otra vez, y esperar resultados distintos. Mira, si lo que has estado haciendo estuviese funcionando, ya serías rico y feliz.

who do you have to be to succeed at anything? Try some of these characteristics on for size: positive, reliable, focused, determined, persistent, hardworking, energetic, good with people, a competent communicator, semi-intelligent, and an expert in at least one area.

Ka?dy mistrz by? kiedy? do kitu

No luck - or anything else worthwhile - will come your way unless you take some form of action.

La definición de demencia es: hacer lo mismo una y otra vez, y esperar resultados distintos.

For us there is only the trying.